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Blood On The Sun (1945)

The time is the 1930s, the place, Tokyo, Japan. Nick Condon (James Cagney) is  a Judo-loving American newspaper editor on a crusade to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Even when the truth is the last thing is host country wants the world to read. When he publishes a world-exlcusive revealing Japan's secret plans for world domination all hell breaks loose and Condon must fight for his life, and the life of the woman (Sylvia Sidney) he's just fallen in love with.

Made near the tail-end of the war, Blood On The Son is typical of the war-time propaganda Hollywood was producing in an effort to win the hearts and minds of those at home. Like most American films of its time, it features primarily Western actors playing the Japanese roles, with a few Koreans and Chinese actors for a bit of Occidental colour.

It would be only too easy to dismiss Blood On The Sun as being just another piece of propaganda were it not for the presence of James Cagney, who gives a performance that just makes you wish he was working with better material.

Directed by: Frank Lloyd
Produced by: William Cagney
Written by: Garrett Fort, Lester Cole, Nathaniel Curtis
Starring: James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney
Crew: A Roland Fields, Alice Barlow, Daniel Keefe, Ern Westmore, Eugene Zador, Frank Melford, George M Arthur, Harvey Dwight, Josef Norin, Michael Woulfe, Miklós Rózsa, Richard Deweese, Robert Martien, Theodor Sparkuhl, Truman K Wood, Walter Hannemann, Wiard Ihnen
Copyright: Public Domain
Format: Black + White
Duration: 94 mins
Year: 1945
Tags: Anti-Japanese, Drama, Propaganda, Romance, Thriller

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Did You Know?

Blood On The Sun is loosely (very, very loosely) based on the famed Tanaka Memorial document, the historical status of which is still in doubt. Most reputable historians claim it was, like the Zinoviev Letter, a forgery, but some still cling to the belief that it was the real deal. Dating from 1927, the Tanaka Memorial document supposedly sets out Japan's strategy for world domination - first take Manchuria, then the whole of China, following which South East Asia, India and Australia will all quickly fall, and the rest is easy.

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